Monday, March 16, 2009

Mark Shaw QC. At £10,000 Per Day - A Lie is Always the Truth


Mark Shaw QC is the General Medical Council's £10,000 per day henchman. You can read all about him here. Mark Shaw eats doctors for dinner. He is the man who protects the General Medical Council from any legal action at all. He is the kind of barrister who argues black is white and vice versa depending how much he is paid.

"He has "complete moral and intellectual integrity" and proves "immensely knowledgeable and reassuring" Chambers UK

We beg to differ on Chambers UK's assessment. Mark Shaw QC misleads with eloquence. A lie is never a lie when told by Mark Shaw QC. It becomes the truth by virtue of being a QC. Moreover, when a lie is required to cover the tracks of his client, he obtains support from third parties to make his line of argument the Truth. Of course, the line between truth and dishonesty is blurred for Mark Shaw because he knows how to slide cleverly diverting the court, using the puffer fish effect so the judge does not notice the actual issues at play. As a barrister who spends a great majority of time watching the violations of human rights and partaking in it, we wonder why his website tells us that he specialises in Human Rights Law. Why practise human rights law if he gets paid large amounts of money for violating the rights of doctors?

Blackstones Chambers states the following

"Public law and human rights cases are often at the cutting edge of legal developments in the UK and serve to help maintain the balance between the interests of the individual and the State. For many years, Blackstone Chambers has been the home of barristers dedicated to ensuring that the rights and interests not only of individuals but also of regulatory bodies and companies are recognised and protected"

Really? Perhaps Mark Shaw QC would like to tell us all how many doctors human rights are violated by the GMC and how many cases he has taken part in?

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